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Letter from Thomas Ormsby (1807-1836), Dublin, grandson, to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. In which he writes "... My Papa has not been well those few days past but is a great deal better today. My cousin Christopher came home last Tuesday from Paris. I was inoculated with the cowpock but did not take it. Mrs. Ransford came home last Thursday week from the county of Tipperary. The new Lord Lieutenant arrived here on Thursday last ..."

Letter from Peter Ormsby, son, to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. From Enniskillen in which he and his wife Mary send their "most sincere thanks for your most friendly invitation ... my health thank God, is much better than when George was here ... it is absolutely necessary I should make the tour of my district, after the 24th instant to settle the half yearly accounts of the regiment. I intend early in July to ask leave of absence if I think it will be granted at that time and when we will be most happy to pay you a visit at Ballinamore. Mary and the children are well except the young one who is delicate ..."

Letter from Christopher Ormsby, son of Christopher Ormsby and nephew, to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. From Ballahoola [Ballahowley, Knock, Co. Mayo] with which he encloses his father's letter which "contained so much complaint" and continues that his father could have refused "my modest request" without accompanying it with falsehood and invective". He refutes all that his father accuses him of "purchasing my two annuities" without consulting him and regarding his horses "I made just two swaps in the course of my life and his stable was never so clean as when my servant and horse are there" ... he writes that his father "at one time (before I became so very deaf) consented to my going into the army and wrote himself to William Lindsey to try and get me a lieutenancy in the Sligo militia yet he afterwards denied that he ever consented to my going into the army at all". He continues "Now, my dear Sir, how is it possible I can live in the house with my father who acts so ungenerously towards me and makes it so uncomfortable, always complaining to me of my poor mother and of his distressed circumstances, neither of which is within my power to remedy ... and since I am incapable of satisfying him I had better spend as little time with him as possible and go to France again, since he won't consent to my taking any place here and live with him I cannot, till he is better disposed towards me ..."

Letter from Frederick Trench, Bolton Street, Piccadilly, [London] to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. In which he writes that his father has received "a letter from you son and I have no doubt all will go on smoothly. A particular survey and valuation of the whole will be necessary with the exception of Derevohy which has already been surveyed ..." Me mentions Mr. Longfield as the surveyor and hopes "your son may approve of him as a surveyor" as it will save expense if they both use the same man". He continues "You did not mention in your letter anything about Mrs. Nicholson's papers. All the proper forms were sent over from the Navy Office addressed to you. I hope they have not miscarried ... it will give me sincere pleasure to revisit the hispitably mansion of Ballinamore ..."

Letter from Nicholas Reddington, Mirehill [Lisdonagh, near Headford, County Galway] to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. In which he writes, "I wrote to my brother to Kilcornan, [Oranmore, County Galway] to know if he had mentioned you as one of the trustees in Mr. Malachy Daly's settlement with his father, and his answer was that he took that liberty of making use of your name as confidential friend on whom he had every reliance ..."

Letter from [Thomas] Spencer Lindsay, Hollymount House, [Hollymount, Co. Mayo] to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo. In which he writes "My brother William will deliver this to you, who goes down to Gallen, to account for the road of which he is overseer ... I should have written to you on the decease of my grandfather but as his last request was to be buried in the most private manner, I did not wish to give you the trouble of so long a drive and in such bad weather. I am left sole executor and residuary legatee. My mother guardian with me to my brother and sisters under age and my uncle Lucan and George Vesey trustees for the remaindership ...

Letter from William Ellison to Thomas Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo, late 1700s. He begins the letter "Hunger it is sayed will break thro' stone walls, why not overcome shame, that is now my case ..." He is in extreme destitution and had to "by my own imprudence ... to sell Rockland, the only stake I had for my unfortunate children. They and I now have no other prospect but starvation from which beggary in this time of general distress cannot save us ... in view of a disconsolate infirm wife and five helpless children, they and I nearly half naked and half starved, once more compels me to solicit your assistance ... All the property I have now left is about seventy pounds a year ..." In a note at the end he requests £2 by the bearer "to keep me alive as I am destitute of the most common necessities for that end, it will not only an obligation but a real charity".

Letters received by Adam Ormsby of Ballinamore, Co. Mayo and - from the middle of 1823 - of 13 Charlemont Street, Dublin. Before that Adam may have been agent at Ballinamore, looking after his elderly parents. His father died in November 1822. Correspondents include his mother, Christopher Ormsby of Dublin, Anne Ormsby, Anthony Ormsby, George Ormsby, John Ormsby, Charles Phibbs, various nephews and others.

Letter from Christopher Ormsby of Dublin, uncle, to Adam Ormsby, Ballinamore. He refers "to a rent roll of part of the concerns in South Great Georges Street occupied by the Government, amounting to the yearly rent of £461.18s.0d." He is trying to sell this property on a 20 year lease for $9230 "I have every reason to expect by Christmas to have these matters settled ... and so anxious am I that I am doing every thing in the power of Man to dispose of other property, in the meantime both what I possess in city and county are acknowledged by every person to be secure and let to solvent and punctual tenants ... the late William Slack whose widow for several years has got one hundred and twenty guineas for her house furnished and I have received for four years and seasons £120 for the same house unfurnished ..." [at Hollybrook, Clontarf, Co. Dublin.

Letter from Anne Ormsby, Knox Street, Sligo, aunt to Adam Ormsby, Ballinamore." On Saturday the 21st of April I had the pleasure of hearing by your letter that you are well And long very long may you continue so is the constant prayer of your old aunt. Indeed you have distressed me very much by sending me so expensive a shawl and bonnet. I never go out but to church and every Sunday I expect will be my last. Everyone that has seen it says that in town or county of Sligo there is not so handsome a shawl or bonnet. I am very sorry I did not leave the trifle I sent you in my will be I thought it better to give it while I was alive and could make use of it - I never thought you would think of making a return of it. My sight every day going worse but God's will be done. I am very thankful that I have not any pain. I really don't know my age [Anne was born in 1746] but I remember many years, so long that I must be very old. If it be necessary to know it the church books of Kilmaine must be examined. Love to Kitt and believe me my dear Adam your affectionate aunt. May the 5th I have three more scrawls to write and my hand shakes so that I can hardly hold my pen. Mrs. Phibbs and daughters went last week to Moat - May the 3rd 1827. John was in town last week and told me that your mother was pretty well".